Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 175
Then came the six men and carried him away again.
What happens: come, carry away · To what, where: six men, man
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 men | det |
| 4 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 men | nummod |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 carried | cc |
| 7 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 carried | obj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 carried | advmod |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 carried | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the six men | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry away | past | man | again | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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